Iran at the Asian Games

Iran at the
Asian Games
Iran at the; Asian Games
IOC code	IRI
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Medals; Ranked 4th	Gold 192 Silver 202 Bronze 217 Total 611
Summer appearances
	1951; 1954; 1958; 1962; 1966; 1970; 1974; 1978; 1982; 1986; 1990; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022; 2026;
Winter appearances
	1990; 1996; 1999; 2003; 2007; 2011; 2017; 2025; 2029;

Iran first participated at the Asian Games in 1951, and has sent athletes to compete in every Asian Games since then, except for 1954, 1962 and 1978.^[1]^[2]

The National Olympic Committee for Iran is the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and was founded in 1947.^[3]

Iran's best performance was in 1974, when the country hosted the event in Tehran, it ranked second with 36 gold, 28 silver and 17 bronze medals.^[4]

Medals by games

Asian Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1951 1951 New Delhi	8	6	2	16	3
1954 Manila	did not participate
1958 1958 Tokyo	7	14	11	32	4
1962 Jakarta	did not participate
1966 1966 Bangkok	6	8	17	31	6
1970 1970 Bangkok	9	7	7	23	4
1974 1974 Tehran	36	28	17	81	2
1978 Bangkok	did not participate
1982 1982 New Delhi	4	4	4	12	7
1986 1986 Seoul	6	6	10	22	4
1990 1990 Beijing	4	6	8	18	5
1994 1994 Hiroshima	9	9	8	26	6
1998 1998 Bangkok	10	11	13	34	7
2002 2002 Busan	8	14	14	36	10
2006 2006 Doha	11	15	22	48	6
2010 2010 Guangzhou	20	15	24	59	4
2014 2014 Incheon	21	18	18	57	5
2018 2018 Jakarta–Palembang	20	20	22	62	6
2022 2022 Hangzhou	13	21	20	54	7
Total	192	202	217	611	4

Asian Winter Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1986 Sapporo	did not participate
1990 1990 Sapporo	0	0	0	0	—
1996 1996 Harbin	0	0	0	0	—
1999 1999 Kangwon	0	0	0	0	—
2003 2003 Aomori	0	0	0	0	—
2007 2007 Changchun	0	0	0	0	—
2011 2011 Astana–Almaty	0	1	2	3	6
2017 2017 Sapporo	0	0	0	0	—
Total	0	1	2	3	9

Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
2005 2005 Bangkok	3	5	2	10	11
2007 2007 Macau	4	4	9	17	8
2009 Bangkok	did not participate
2009 2009 Hanoi	17	15	13	45	5
2013 2013 Incheon	3	6	2	11	6
2017 2017 Ashgabat	36	23	59	118	3
2021 Bangkok and Chonburi
Total	63	53	85	201	7

Asian Beach Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
2008 2008 Bali	0	0	0	0	—
2010 2010 Muscat	0	0	2	2	21
2012 2012 Haiyang	2	0	0	2	7
2014 2014 Phuket	9	14	8	31	4
2016 2016 Da Nang	9	6	6	21	4
Total	20	20	16	56	6

Asian Youth Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
2009 2009 Singapore	1	3	2	6	11
2013 2013 Nanjing	0	6	2	8	20
Total	1	9	4	14	15

Medals by sport

Asian Games

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Aquatics, Diving	0	1	3	4
Aquatics, Water polo	1	0	1	2
Archery	1	0	2	3
Athletics	13	16	10	39
Basketball	0	2	3	5
Basketball, 3x3	0	0	1	1
Board games, Chess	1	0	1	2
Boxing	5	11	26	42
Canoeing, Slalom	0	0	1	1
Canoeing, Sprint	1	5	8	14
Cycling, Mountain bike	0	0	1	1
Cycling, Road	3	5	6	14
Cycling, Track	2	5	8	15
Equestrian	0	0	1	1
Fencing	3	6	9	18
Football	4	2	1	7
Gymnastics, Artistic	0	1	0	1
Handball	0	1	1	2
Judo	1	8	11	20
Kabaddi	2	4	2	8
Karate	15	11	12	38
Kurash	2	4	3	9
Pencak silat	0	0	1	1
Roller sports, Freestyle	0	1	0	1
Rowing	2	5	5	12
Shooting	1	4	4	9
Sport climbing	2	0	0	2
Table tennis	0	0	5	5
Taekwondo	14	17	23	54
Tennis	0	2	2	4
Volleyball	3	3	2	8
Weightlifting	33	31	20	84
Wrestling	74	44	37	155
Wushu	9	13	7	29
Total	192	202	217	611

Asian Winter Games

Sport	Silver	Bronze	Total
Ski orienteering	1	1	2
Skiing, Alpine	0	1	1
Total	1	2	3

Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
3x3 basketball	1	0	0	1
Board games, Chess	1	2	3	6
Cue sports	1	3	2	6
Cycling, Track	1	1	1	3
Equestrian	0	0	1	1
Esports	2	2	3	7
Futsal	5	1	1	7
Indoor archery	3	1	4	8
Indoor athletics	5	5	7	17
Indoor hockey	1	0	0	1
Ju-jitsu	1	2	2	5
Kabaddi	0	3	1	4
Kickboxing	7	4	5	16
Kurash	4	5	6	15
Muaythai	7	6	6	19
Pencak silat	0	2	1	3
Sambo	0	0	3	3
Sepak takraw	0	0	1	1
Short course swimming	1	1	1	3
Sport climbing	0	0	1	1
Taekwondo	7	2	4	13
Vovinam	1	3	3	7
Weightlifting	1	1	2	4
Wrestling	9	3	4	16
Wrestling, Alysh	1	1	10	12
Wrestling, Belt	0	1	8	9
Wrestling, Pahlavani	3	0	0	3
Wrestling, Turkmen goresh	0	1	5	6
Wushu	1	3	0	4
Total	63	53	85	201

Asian Beach Games

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Aquatics, Beach water polo	0	1	0	1
Beach athletics	2	3	1	6
Beach kabaddi	2	0	1	3
Beach kurash	3	3	2	8
Beach sambo	0	2	2	4
Beach sepak takraw	0	0	2	2
Beach soccer	2	0	1	3
Beach volleyball	0	1	0	1
Beach wrestling	5	1	0	6
Bodybuilding	1	1	0	2
Footvolley	0	1	0	1
Ju-jitsu	0	3	3	6
Muaythai	3	2	1	6
Pencak silat	0	1	1	2
Vocotruyen	2	1	1	4
Vovinam	0	0	1	1
Total	20	20	16	56

Asian Youth Games

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
3x3 basketball	0	1	0	1
Athletics	1	5	2	8
Football	0	1	1	2
Judo	0	0	1	1
Shooting	0	1	0	1
Taekwondo	0	1	0	1
Total	1	9	4	14

West Asian Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1997 Tehran	63	37	56	156	1
2002 Kuwait City	9	11	16	36	3
2005 Doha	20	25	16	61	3
Total	92	73	88	253	1

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Aquatics, Diving	2	2	3	7
Aquatics, Swimming	6	6	11	23
Athletics	15	18	22	55
Badminton	3	3	6	12
Basketball	1	0	0	1
Boxing	7	2	3	12
Fencing	7	9	9	25
Football	1	1	1	3
Gymnastics	2	6	5	13
Handball	0	1	0	1
Judo	3	2	1	6
Karate	11	7	11	29
Shooting	5	5	7	17
Table tennis	3	2	3	8
Taekwondo	6	1	1	8
Tennis	3	0	2	5
Volleyball	0	1	0	1
Weightlifting	8	3	1	12
Wrestling	9	4	2	15
Total	92	73	88	253

Multiple gold medalists

This is a list of multiple Asian Games gold medalists for Iran, listing people who have won at least three medals including at least two gold medals.

Athletes in bold are still active.

Athlete	Sport	Asian Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Mohammad Nassiri	Weightlifting	1966–1974	4	1	0	5
Ehsan Haddadi	Athletics	2006–2022	4	1	0	5
Moslem Eskandar-Filabi	Wrestling	1966–1974	4	0	0	4
Reza Soukhtehsaraei	Wrestling	1974–1990	3	1	0	4
Mohammad Mousavi	Volleyball	2010–2022	3	1	0	4
Mohsen Mohammadseifi	Wushu	2010–2022	3	1	0	4
Houshang Kargarnejad	Weightlifting	1970–1974	3	0	1	4
Behdad Salimi	Weightlifting	2010–2018	3	0	0	3
Alireza Heidari	Wrestling	1998–2006	3	0	0	3
Reza Yazdani	Wrestling	2006–2014	3	0	0	3
Jalal Keshmiri	Athletics	1966–1974	2	3	1	6
Hassan Arianfard	Cycling	1970–1974	2	1	1	4
Jasem Vishkaei	Karate	2002–2010	2	1	0	3
Akbar Shokrollahi	Weightlifting	1974	2	1	0	3
Ali Vali	Weightlifting	1974	2	1	0	3
Saeid Marouf	Volleyball	2010–2018	2	1	0	3
Teymour Ghiasi	Athletics	1966–1974	2	0	1	3
Hossein Rezazadeh	Weightlifting	1998–2006	2	0	1	3

List of flag bearers

Event year	Flag bearer	Sport
1951	Ahmad Ordoubadi	Weightlifting
1958	Mahmoud Namjoo	Weightlifting
1966	Mansour Mehdizadeh	Wrestling
1970	Mohammad Nassiri	Weightlifting
1974	Moslem Eskandar-Filabi	Wrestling
1982	Reza Soukhtehsaraei	Wrestling
1986	Reza Soukhtehsaraei	Wrestling
1990	Alireza Lorestani	Wrestling
1994	Amir Reza Khadem	Wrestling
1998	Zahra Mahroughi	Shooting
2002	Ali Daei	Football
2006	Hossein Rezazadeh	Weightlifting
2010	Samad Nikkhah Bahrami	Basketball
2014	Behdad Salimi	Weightlifting
2018	Elaheh Ahmadi	Shooting
2022	Javad Foroughi Nahid Kiani	Shooting Taekwondo

References

^ Olympic Council of Asia
^ "Asian Games: Iran and China win team competitions". Retrieved 8 October 2023.
^ "Iran Olympic Committee". Retrieved 8 October 2023.
^ "1974 Tehran Asian Games". Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

External links

Official website of the Iran Olympic Committee

[1] Olympic Council of Asia

[2] "Asian Games: Iran and China win team competitions". Retrieved 8 October 2023.

[3] "Iran Olympic Committee". Retrieved 8 October 2023.

[4] "1974 Tehran Asian Games". Archived from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

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